Magnus Björnstjerna

Count Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand Björnstjerna (* October 10, 1779 in Dresden, † October 6, 1847 in Stockholm) was a Swedish General, diplomat and writer.

He was educated in Germany where his father was Swedish legation secretary and entered 1793 in Sweden in the army. In the Finnish war he was Major, in 1809 went as a secret ambassador to Napoleon I., and acted in London in 1812 due to the sale of the island of Guadeloupe. In 1813 he went as a colonel with the Swedish army to Germany, where he was horrified Hamburg and defend the four land, but had to withdraw and then mitkämpfte near Leipzig.

He led the negotiations for the surrender of Lübeck and Maastricht, fought in Holstein and Norway later and joined with Prince Christian Frederick the Convention of Moss, Norway was united as a result of which with Sweden on 20 October 1814. In 1815 he was Adjutant General and Baron, 1820 Lieutenant General 1826 Graf. From 1828 to 1846 he served as minister plenipotentiary at the British court, which he returned to Stockholm, where he died on 6 October 1847. Björn Terna confessed to a moderate liberalism.

He wrote both Swedish and German:

• The British Empire in the East Indies. Translated by John Rohtlieb. Stockholm: Fritze & Bagge, 1839.
• The theogony, cosmogony and philosophy of the Hindus. Stockholm: Norstedt, 1843; also several things about state economic issues.